This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Andrew and Rebeca Anderson=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 3:08 PM Subject: Re: Safeco business insurance I got a quote from them that has me looking for competing bids. Andrew At 04:53 PM 8/11/2005, you wrote: To the list: Just got a renewal notice from Safeco that my = insurance will be raised 32% for the upcoming year!! Has anybody else = encountered something like this? =20 =20 Don Bee, Sr., RPT Chicago Chapter Thanks for reminding me how much insurance companies are like = politicians, lawyers and child molesters. When I started to fix pianos, install pianocorders etc. I got a = liability etc policy from a broker for about 750 dollars a year. (that = was about what I was making) State Farm then told me they were getting in the business. I got a = policy from them for about $450 a year. Next year they raised it to = $550. Next year $1250. I reluctantly paid it until they then raised it = to $2500. It was obvious they wanted to get out of the business. = Nobody would talk to me for less than $2500. That was when I signed up = for the PTG for about $250 a year. Last payment was was about $550. = I've never filed a clain (The insurance companies will say "well you're = about due") If Safeco is listening I have one thing to say "UP YOURS". = When my payment is due, guess what? Hasta la vista baby. Has anybody = tried Lloyds of London? They insure boobs, so why not piano techs? I have no advice, except to bitch, bitch.bitch. It won't do any good, = but you'll feel better. When you shop for insurance, make sure it includes "products = liability". that is very important if you install after market = equipment such as Pianodisc or Pianomation. I still install the = occasional Pianocorder with interface to the computer so I am somewhat = vunerable. Electrical installation can be a problem for liability. Happy hunting, Carl Meyer PTG assoc Santa Clara, Ca. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/30/e6/ec/f2/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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